'The Supreme Court is on trial': Pelosi urges justices to meet the moment on Trump

The Supreme Court has the whole nation watching it, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told CNN's Anderson Cooper — and they need to make the right decision and not drag out former President Donald Trump's criminal trial for election conspiracy any further than they need to.

Additionally, she added, Justice Clarence Thomas — whose wife was heavily involved in the effort to overturn the election — needs to bow out of this altogether.

"So, the former president's trying to rewrite history," said Cooper. "Ludicrously now claiming you were behind the insurrection at the Capitol, saying he should have total immunity. You've seen a lot of presidents up close. If a president had total immunity, as Trump claims, what would that mean? What would that actually look like?"

"That would mean that this president thinks that he is above the law," said Pelosi. "And I think that he is on trial for certain things. I think the Supreme Court is on trial as well to see if they would uphold the decision of the D.C. District Court. And while the four votes to hear it, five votes for a stay, how could they possibly give a stay for justice to proceed, how could they possibly give a stay? So this is really — again, he always thought he was above the law. He's trying to make that a case. That's not what our founders had in mind. They knew there could be a rogue president. I don't think they thought that could be a rogue Supreme Court as well."

"Do you have confidence in the Supreme Court?" said Cooper. "Should Clarence Thomas have recused himself, given his wife's activities?"

"Absolutely," said Pelosi. "Well, you should have for a long time ... he should have been recusing himself, or they say the rule is that it's up to the person to recuse themselves. They have no peer pressure or anything to address that, but his wife is so involved in everything that was happening on January 6, bragging about it. And there he is."

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